Boothcasset track dominates in Farmingdale

Thu, 05/05/2022 - 3:15pm

Boothcasset track faced Hall-Dale and Mt. Abram high schools and Monmouth Academy in Farmingdale May 3. The boys team outpaced all competition and the girls team eked out a close second behind Hall-Dale and ahead of Monmouth.

The boys team owned most of the running events. In the 100m dash, Austin Trask took first in 12.25s; Nate Shutte, third, 12.61; Tristan Pepe, fourth, 12.68; Payton Blagdon, fifth, 13.07; Kayden Ames, seventh, 13.21; Conner Dover, 12th, 14.15; and Nase Lawless, 13th, 14.55.

In the 200m dash, Bryan Gagnon took first in 25.06; Trask, second, 25.38; Shutte, third, 25.6; Blagdon, fourth, 25.9; Pepe, fifth, 26.8; Henry Putnam, sixth, 26.86; and Dover, 12th, 28.53. Ryan Clark took second in the 800m and 1600m runs in 2:24.49 and 5:17.37. Marshall Wall took second in the 3200m run in 11:32.57. Nate Benoit and Putnam took first and second in the 1600m race-walk in 11:31.75 and 12:18.83.

Shutte, Dover, Lawless and Benoit took first, seventh, eighth and ninth in the long jump with 16’7”, 13’2.5”, 12’7.5” and 11’6”. Lawless also took third in the high jump with 4’8”.

Ames took first in shot put with 39’6”; Zach Rollins, second, 38’; Caden Royal, 13th, 26’6”; Cecil Clifford, 14th, 26’; Brady Nichols, 15th, 24’3”; and Peter Holbrook, 18th, 21’7”. Ames took first in discus with 127’3”; Rollins, third, 101’8”; Nichols, 11th, 71’6”; Royal, 13th, 67’; Holbrook, 14th, 65’4”; Clifford, 15th, 63’9”; and Thomas Babineau, 20th, 50’3”. Putnam and Clifford took fifth and eighth in javelin with 91’5” and 75’8”.

The boys 4x100m relay team – Gagnon, Pepe, Blagdon and Trask – took first in 48.54 seconds. The 4x400m relay team – Trask, Gagnon, Blagdon and Clark – also took first in 3:56.82

For the girls, Emily Gilliam and Anna Gosselin took fifth and eighth in the 200m dash in 31.55s and 34.58. Gilliam also took first in the 400m dash in 1:13.22 and fourth in triple jump with 23’6”.

Grace Campbell, Maddie Orchard and Julia Truesdell took first, second and fourth in the 800m run in 2:58.93, 3:00.79 and 3:03.08. The trio returned to the track for the 1600m run taking second, third and fourth in 6:41.98, 6:45.21 and 6:47.13. Ava Schlosser dominated the 3200m run taking first in 14:13.85.

Josie Harrington took firsts in the 100m hurdles in 17.81, high jump with 4’10” and shot put with 25’10”. Marissa Davison and Alivia Orr took fourth and seventh in shot put with 20’11.5” and 19’6.5” and seventh and 16th in discus with 58’4” and 37’3”. Anna Gosselin, Emily Gosselin, Orr, Truesdell and Davison took fifth, ninth, 10th, 14th and 17th in javelin with 66’7”, 50’, 48’, 41’3” and 38’5”. The girls 4x400m relay team – Campbell, Orchard, Truesdell and Gilliam – took first in 5:00.47, nearly half a minute ahead of Hall-Dale.